Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 87 83
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,116 1,664 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 3.35% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 3.76% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,412 796 1,244
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,375 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,305 £70,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year -0.99% +11.55% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 1,824 £75,000 - 1,917
UK excluding London -25 1,158 £69,305 -0.99% 962
Work from Home -18 848 £69,310 -0.99% 910
London -17 800 £85,000 +3.03% 1,185
North of England -47 370 £75,000 +7.14% 270
South East +53 316 £65,000 -7.14% 190
North West -58 201 £77,000 +10.00% 139
South West -4 148 £67,500 +10.20% 85
Midlands -52 108 £75,000 +7.14% 103
North East +10 93 £65,000 +49.86% 48
West Midlands -44 78 £80,000 +14.29% 67
Yorkshire +2 76 £69,310 -2.38% 84
Northern Ireland -22 73 £60,000 +33.33% 77
Wales -13 68 £62,000 +19.23% 26
East of England -50 41 £60,100 -5.73% 75
Scotland -45 34 £70,000 -9.68% 138
East Midlands -59 30 £65,000 -5.45% 36
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (1.98%) Confluence
2 27 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.95%) Apache
3 20 (0.95%) CMS
4 15 (0.71%) Camunda
5 11 (0.52%) IIS
6 10 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.43%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) WordPress
8 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.33%) Drupal
9 7 (0.33%) JBoss
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) DNN
11 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Eikon
5 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.047%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,091 (51.56%) AWS
2 907 (42.86%) Azure
3 333 (15.74%) GCP
4 291 (13.75%) GitHub
5 268 (12.67%) Serverless
6 199 (9.40%) SaaS
7 184 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
9 129 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 129 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 118 (5.58%) Amazon S3
11 106 (5.01%) GitHub Copilot
12 97 (4.58%) Azure Service Bus
13 87 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
13 87 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
14 66 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (2.98%) Azure AKS
16 56 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
17 53 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
18 50 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.18%) Network Security
2 16 (0.76%) VPN
3 15 (0.71%) Broadband
3 15 (0.71%) DMARC
4 14 (0.66%) DNS
5 12 (0.57%) MQTT
6 10 (0.47%) AMQP
7 9 (0.43%) Firewall
7 9 (0.43%) HTTP
8 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.33%) Internet
10 6 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
11 5 (0.24%) RFID
12 3 (0.14%) BGP
12 3 (0.14%) LTE
12 3 (0.14%) NAS
12 3 (0.14%) SAN
12 3 (0.14%) SSL
13 2 (0.095%) DHCP
13 2 (0.095%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (15.36%) MongoDB
2 250 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (10.02%) NoSQL
4 167 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 150 (7.09%) Elasticsearch
6 121 (5.72%) MySQL
7 107 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 90 (4.25%) Relational Database
9 75 (3.54%) Redis
10 55 (2.60%) DynamoDB
11 46 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.42%) Big Data
13 22 (1.04%) Pinecone
14 21 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) Chroma
16 14 (0.66%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.57%) DTS
18 10 (0.47%) Db2
18 10 (0.47%) Metadata
19 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 297 (14.04%) Git
2 206 (9.74%) GitLab
3 167 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 75 (3.54%) TeamCity
5 70 (3.31%) JUnit
6 57 (2.69%) Cucumber
7 56 (2.65%) JIRA
8 42 (1.98%) Mockito
9 40 (1.89%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.75%) Maven
11 32 (1.51%) Claude Code
12 29 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (1.09%) Selenium
14 17 (0.80%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.80%) Spock
15 15 (0.71%) JMeter
15 15 (0.71%) Postman
16 13 (0.61%) Vite
17 12 (0.57%) SonarQube
18 9 (0.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 538 (25.43%) Finance
2 442 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 242 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 210 (9.92%) Banking
5 177 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 156 (7.37%) Law
7 153 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
8 142 (6.71%) Retail
9 96 (4.54%) Financial Institution
10 87 (4.11%) Legal
11 71 (3.36%) Back Office
12 60 (2.84%) Marketing
13 47 (2.22%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.47%) Games
16 28 (1.32%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.85%) Front Office
18 15 (0.71%) Advertising
19 12 (0.57%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 754 (35.63%) Developer
2 533 (25.19%) Senior
3 384 (18.15%) Software Engineer
4 363 (17.16%) Lead
5 319 (15.08%) Architect
6 203 (9.59%) Senior Developer
7 191 (9.03%) .NET Developer
8 168 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 167 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
10 144 (6.81%) Java Engineer
11 134 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 125 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 109 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
14 108 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (3.97%) Lead Software Engineer
16 78 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.31%) Software Developer
18 66 (3.12%) Lead Developer
19 62 (2.93%) Backend Developer
19 62 (2.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (25.19%) .NET
2 456 (21.55%) React
3 426 (20.13%) Node.js
4 415 (19.61%) Terraform
5 414 (19.57%) Spring
6 378 (17.86%) Spring Boot
7 315 (14.89%) RESTful
8 301 (14.22%) Kafka
9 295 (13.94%) REST
10 238 (11.25%) ASP.NET
11 227 (10.73%) AngularJS
12 218 (10.30%) .NET Core
13 197 (9.31%) Vue
14 193 (9.12%) ASP.NET Core
15 123 (5.81%) Blazor
16 102 (4.82%) ASP.NET Web API
17 88 (4.16%) HTML
18 86 (4.06%) .NET Framework
19 84 (3.97%) CSS
20 80 (3.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 709 (33.51%) Cloud Native
2 400 (18.90%) Distributed Systems
3 173 (8.18%) Product Ownership
4 133 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.97%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.17%) AI Agents
7 67 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 49 (2.32%) e-Learning
10 46 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
14 21 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 21 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.09%) Linux
2 50 (2.36%) Windows
3 32 (1.51%) CentOS
3 32 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.04%) Unix
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 7 (0.33%) Debian
8 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,178 (55.67%) CI/CD
2 1,028 (48.58%) Agile
3 777 (36.72%) Software Engineering
4 748 (35.35%) DevOps
5 570 (26.94%) Mentoring
6 562 (26.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 505 (23.87%) Event-Driven
8 480 (22.68%) AI
9 461 (21.79%) Test Automation
10 446 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 423 (19.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 416 (19.66%) Containerisation
13 385 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
14 338 (15.97%) Technical Leadership
15 313 (14.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 294 (13.89%) Scrum
17 277 (13.09%) Observability
18 267 (12.62%) Architectural Patterns
19 239 (11.29%) TDD
20 234 (11.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 797 (37.67%) Java
2 574 (27.13%) C#
3 508 (24.01%) SQL
4 448 (21.17%) JavaScript
5 418 (19.75%) Python
6 408 (19.28%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.92%) Go
8 57 (2.69%) Ruby
9 43 (2.03%) C++
10 36 (1.70%) Bash
11 33 (1.56%) PHP
12 29 (1.37%) Bicep
13 27 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 20 (0.95%) Rust
16 16 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.61%) Scala
18 12 (0.57%) Groovy
18 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.47%) RPG
Qualifications
1 357 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 249 (11.77%) SC Cleared
3 166 (7.84%) Degree
4 106 (5.01%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 85 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.70%) CISSP
9 23 (1.09%) CISM
10 18 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.47%) MBA
14 9 (0.43%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.28%) CCSP
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (10.54%) QA
2 100 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.84%) WCAG
4 26 (1.23%) GDPR
5 24 (1.13%) NIST
6 19 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.80%) NCSC
8 14 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) GRC
11 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.14%) SEPA
15 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 614 (29.02%) Docker
2 42 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) NDS
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 685 (32.37%) Kubernetes
2 124 (5.86%) Grafana
3 98 (4.63%) Ansible
4 53 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.32%) Argo
5 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.99%) Puppet
7 14 (0.66%) Kibana
8 11 (0.52%) Cilium
9 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.047%) Consul
14 1 (0.047%) Control-M
14 1 (0.047%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.047%) logstash
Vendors
1 345 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 101 (4.77%) Google
3 68 (3.21%) Oracle
4 56 (2.65%) Splunk
5 52 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 33 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 29 (1.37%) Okta
8 27 (1.28%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.13%) Databricks
10 19 (0.90%) Mistral
11 18 (0.85%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.80%) IBM
13 16 (0.76%) SAP
14 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
14 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.66%) Adobe
15 14 (0.66%) OpenText
16 13 (0.61%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.47%) NetIQ